OfficerRNBSN

Hi. A little background: I am both a RN and a police officer with experience in both capacities albeit separately, lol. I've been hired recently to help rebuild a jail's infirmary after previous staff undertook in both illegal and unethical acts. ...

As a practice, do inmates at your facilities receive sleep aids? Are they prescribed? At my facility, we do not issue controlled substances to inmates and are considering the cessation of anything given out to aid in rest or sleep such as trazodon...

We issue all medications through "the bean hole" or a flap that opens in doors so a jailer isn't really needed. As it stands, jailers issue meds 20 out of the 28 med passes each week anyway. Inmates aren't allowed around the med cart. They initial...

I think anytime you work with the public you become cynical and increasingly crazy. I know I have, lol. How do you feel about that? Ha, jk. Seriously though, in psych, out of necessity, one has to develop some patience and refined communication ...

Next fall, I'll have rotations three days per week and in the following spring two per week. I'm really thinking of stopping work in the fall, but I really don't want to spend my savings so I'm not sure how we could survive. I work a four day week ...

In my state, anybody off the street can walk in and be labeled a medical assistant, tech, or just about whatever else they want. There's no required education or credentialing. The same applies to pharmacy techs as well although I think the pharma...

At my school they are all in clinics. What you do is more or less up to the preceptor.

I have a The North Face Apex Bionic jacket that I keep in the backseat of my truck. It's a great all weather jacket. Is that what you're talking about? Usually, I wore a Columbia fleece at work because they're much cheaper and thus more disposable...

If I needed to carry it around for a while I'd kind of coil it up and put it in a pocket. I worse scrubs that had pockets. If I was using it and needed my hands free, without having the time to coil it back up, I would throw it over my shoulder. I...

Well, it's not a bad job really. The pay is typically good, and with a little time in grade you can get a decent shift. You certainly get the opportunity to meet a lot of people and many of them are genuinely thankful for the work you do for them. ...

I disagree. See blow. You'll find he content outlines for both physical sciences and biological sciences tested on the MCAT. Sadly, most nurses I've worked with or supervised failed to have a basic grasp of physiology much less any sciences tested o...

My answer is maybe, but I don't say that believing physicians are ignorant. Rather, nursing, EMS, and a variety of other healthcare roles have unique nuances that guide and or limit their practice. I know an ER doc that failed the National Registry e...

While most of us avoid that like the plague

Why do it to begin with? I understand the desire to help, but if you're in cardiology your job is doing cardiology. I live in a pretty black and white world though.

If you're given a lunch break then take it. The hospital survived before you were hired. It'll survive while you're eating or sitting on the throne. If the other staff are so keen on looking like they're doing their job then let them be. I promis...

I'm always perplexed over these discussions of skill loss. I personally don't want to be putting urinary catheters or IVs in people. It's not hard, but it's just not anything I want to do. You learned how to do it once. You can learn to do it aga...

If you get hit by a gunner in my state it's battery II (felony). Definitely not something to turn a blind eye to.

It's not going to happen. Individual states might decide between now and then to start this, but no one will have to be a Doctor Nurse by 2015. Just not gonna happen and frankly I'm not on board with it. Yep, I use that mean word "midlevel," and I...

There is a FNP in my town who started out as a school nurse in a very small school district. She has a rather large practice for a NP too.

At my work, I can write conduct complaints (and enforce them) against inmates, and these may result in such punitive actions as segregation, lock down, loss of visitation, loss of commissary, etc. I may also give direction, commands, and orders to i...

I had to work a year as an academic requirement, but I was able to take core/non-specialty classes that year as well. I recommend psychiatric-mental health NP. It's great because in my region grads are still recruited well before graduation, you get ...

This. I run the clinic of a long term jail meaning that even though it is not prison we may house inmates in excess of one year. Tips: do things by the book and never deviate, when the book doesn't apply confer with admin; inmates have absolutely no...

I'm looking to buy our first ever EKG for the jail. I don't know if it's against the rules here or not to recommend products, but I'm curious to see what features you have or would like to have in your jail or prison's EKG. Initially, I only wante...

Name it. I probably do it. I don't want medical excitement so if you're looking for that then a jail or prison probably isn't the place. If you're looking for people that can't do anything but lie and feign illnesses then this is the place for you...

I would avoid black and white stripes.